Tank-heater.



No. 758,143. PATENTED APR; 26, 1904. H. D. MEYER.

' TANK HEATER.

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Patented April 26, 1904.

PATENT 7 OF ICE.

HENRY MEYER, OF LOWELL, INDIANA.

TANK-H EATER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 758,143, dated April 26, 1904.

Application filed January 2, 1904.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY D. MEYER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Lowell, county of Lake, and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tank-Heaters, of which the following is a specification and which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

The invention relates to that class of devices which are used for heating water or cooking feed for live stock and which consist of a heater adapted to be submerged within the contents of a tank, feeding and draft openings being provided above the surface-line of the material to be heated. I

The object of the invention is to generally improve devices of this class and particularly with .regard to the provision'of supplying the same with fuel; and it consists in the mechanism hereinafter described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section on the line 1 1 of Fig. 2; and Figs. 2 and 3 are transverse vertical sections on the lines 2 2 and 3 3, respectively, of Fig. 1.

The body 10 of the heater may be of any suitable configuration, as shown being oblong rectangular in .plan section. Its interior is divided by means of a vertical partition 11 into two com partmentson the one side a firebox provided with a grate 12 and on the other side a feeding and cleaning chamber provided with a cover 13, having any form of draftregulating damper, as indicated at 14. From the fire-box there leads upwardly a smokeflue 15, which may be provided with a simple Serial No. 187,512. (No model.)

grate 12, and its lower portion 18 slides between the vertical ribs 19 and 20, formed on the side walls of the heater, so that tlfe partition may for the purpose of affording free access to the ash-pit below the grate be entirely removed. This portion 18 of the partition is apertured, as shown in Fig. 2, to provide for the free access of air to the ash-pit.

The rib 20 on the forward side of the partition 11 extends to the top of the heater, serving as a stop against which the upper portion of the partition bears. This portion of the partition is provided with a book 21, which projects forwardly through it and engages an eye 22, secured to the inner face of the arch of the fire-box, thereby securing this leaf of the partition in its vertical position. A rearwardly-extending handpiece with which the hook is provided serves as convenient means for controlling the hook and also as a support for this leaf of the partition when it is thrown back against the rearward wall of the heater to the dotted-line position shown in Fig. 1.

The cover 13 may rest on instanding lugs 23 and be held in place by means of pins 24:, extending upwardly from these lugs.

In use the heater is submerged within the contents of the tank, which may overflow the arch of its fire-box. The cover 13 having been removed, the upper leaf of the partition 11 is thrown backwardly and serves as a chute for the feeding of fuel to the grate. The fuel having been introduced, this partition is returned to and secured in its vertical position, and the fire having been started the cover 13 may be replaced, draft being provided through the damper 1 1 and'the aperture in the lower leaf 18 of the partition.

Access is provided to the ash-pit by removing the cover 13 and introducing a poker or scraper through the aperture. of the portion 18 of the partition, or the partition may be wholly or partially removed to give more'free access to the ash-pit.

I claim as my invention 1. A heater of the character described havinga fire-box and a feeding and cleaning chamber, such compartments being separated by a partition pivoted at its lower end and swinging backwardly to an inclined position across ing capable of swinging backwardly to an inthe feeding and cleaning compartment. clined position across the feed-aperture.

2. In a heater of the character described, in combination, a casing having a draft and feed HENRY MEYER 5 aperture and a smoke-flue through its upper Witnesses:

wall, and a sliding sectional partition located JOHN N. HOFFMAN, between such apertures its upper portion be- FRANK E. NELSON. 

